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Pop: Get on Down: Ultravox! MK1

Before Midge Ure and Vienna, Ultravox! were an arty and only mildly pretentious electro-pop band who got caught up inadvertently in the punk revolution. Brian Eno produced their debut album and Krautrock titan Conny Plank their third (and last); all are reissued next month. When Ure replaced John Foxx in 1980, a little part of many fans died.

1 Hiroshima Mon Amour This could have been cringe-making; instead, Foxx’s ice-cool narrative and a plaintive sax propel it to greatness.

2 Saturday Night in the City of the Dead A harmonica-driven glam-rock blast that’s a lost Bowie track in all but name.

3 Slow Motion Could Gary Numan’s Cars have existed without this?

4 Rockwrok “F*** like a dog, bark like a shark,” Foxx suggests on this buzz-saw stomp.

5 My Sex To some a foppish folly, to others an austere art-rock masterpiece.